Tareq Mirza demonstrates his Maya modelling techniques in Organic Modeling I: Human Anatomy Male, an excellent new DVD from Freedom of Teach. Using workflows applicable to any 3D polygon package, Mr. Mirza transforms a box into a clean, well-built virtual representation of Andrew Cawrse's ecorche figure.
You probably will pick up some additional anatomy information here, but this DVD works best not as an anatomy lesson, but as a demonstration of how to think about organic modelling in a polygon environment - it's all about box modelling, controlling edge loops, quad polygon flow, and smoothing. Mirza assumes the viewer has already had some anatomy instruction. For example: When creating the calf muscles, Mirza models the soleus not as a continuous form under the gastrocnemius muscles - as it really is - but as two independent bulges to the left and right of the gastrocnemius muscles - as it appears to be. I'm not suggesting Mirza should do anything different, but a viewer who didn't know anatomy might form a wrong impression of the unseen inner structure of the lower leg. Such anatomy lessons are necessarily beyond the scope of this DVD.
At under $60 Organic Modeling I: Human Anatomy Male is a great value. Freedom of Teach could probably break the chapters on the head and various limbs into their own DVD's and sell each for the price of this entire collection of information. I highly recommend this DVD.
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